March 18, 2007
Sportswriter for a day
By MARC BERMANI had the pleasure today of hosting a 12-year-old Jersey student, Lawrence Lograno, who won a "Sportswriter for the Day'' auction prize. The winning bid went to raise...
YANKEE SIGHTLINES
Since you are still snowed in, this is what it was like at Legends Field today.There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, but it was a chilly 66 degrees. Chilly...
El Duque update
By MARK HALEJust got the Duque update -- he had a right hamstring cramp, according to the Mets. The team said the injury went away immediately.
Duque hurt again
By MARK HALE Orlando Hernandez, who's been battling neck arthritis, just had to leave the game with another injury.El Duque, who had pitched the first four innings of the game...
'Zodiac' in Retrograde
Box office reports tend to focus on the top of the charts -- as expected, "300'' dropped 55 per cent over the weekend -- but sometimes the more interesting story...
Day 37: Why I Don't Root
Something comes up regularly on responses to my blogs and also in email I receive at the paper. I have a number of Met fans who claim that I have...
Kenny Strikes Back
Premiere Magazine has drawn its last breath with the new issue now on the stands, but its sterling critic Glenn Kenny -- who probably matches my tastes more closely than...
Musetto Lets Loose
Our honorable film editor, Vincent A. Musetto, who has been teasing us since Tuesday about his imminent scoop about the U.S. release of a notorious foreign film, finally lets the...
DVD Sleepers
They just missed St. Patrick's Day, but 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has done well by "Michael Shayne Mysteries Volume 1,'' which I write about in today's Post in advance...
BOY TROUBLE
It's been the most lopsided season to date for "American Idol": The unimpressive boys are seriously out-classed by the splendid girl singers. In the process of cutting the Top 24...
TWIST & SHOUT
Shake it a-baby. When ABC's "Dancing With The Stars" returns for its fourth season tomorrow night, all eyes will be on the one dancer who doesn't have two good legs:...
THE DON'T MISS LIST
DRAMA One last chance Now that Michael (Wentworth Miller) and Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) have exhausted their options for freedom in the United States, Sarah (Sarah Wayne Callies) weighs sacrificing herself...
REEL GOOD
JAWS (1975) Sunday, 2 p.m., USA A killer shark who is still crazy after all these years, terrorizes a Hamptons/Nantucket type-summer resort town. He eats assorted water-frolicking townies and tourists...
HURRY UP AND FIX SHARK-JUMPING '24'
Jack Bauer must be saved. It pains me to say this. But this season, the greatest show on television, "24," is moving its toes treacherously close to the shark tank...
MAMA EVITA: LUPONE GETS MATERNAL ON 'BETTY'
Some of the stunt casting done lately on "Ugly Betty" has made us fear that show, still only in its first season, was going the way of "Will & Grace."...
SECRET 'SISTER'
Emily VanCamp is finding that it's a long way to Los Angeles from the fictional mountain hamlet of Everwood, Colo. On ABC's family drama, "Brothers & Sisters," VanCamp, 20, has...
BEWARE THOSE PERFECT PREMIERE EPISODES
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. That adage seems to have sunk into the brains of producers making the pilots for series they hope to...
BOY WONDER
MOST "American Idol" fans - and pretty much anyone who has ears - will agree that Sanjaya Malakar is the worst finalist ever. He's so awful that every week you...
HOT LIST
1.) Being baaa'd to the bone It's not due out until June in the U.S., but we're giddy with excitement over the trailer for "Black Sheep," a movie about killer...
HOT SEAT
DESPITE a cinematic trip inside the actor's brain in "Being John Malkovich," it's still hard to fathom what goes on in that head. Of the bigger names in Hollywood, Malkovich...
RABBIT FEARS
IN the weeks leading up to Easter, any gift resembling a rabbit is a hot item. But if you plan to buy a real, live Easter bunny, the House Rabbit...
CAT OUTTA THE HAT
IN my last column, I talked about eliminating feline smells from the litter box. But what if that nasty odor comes from a cat whose been thinking outside the box?...
ADOPT ME
Mister Lucky is just that. He's a 10-year-old fellow who has so much personality and tons of charm - he makes anyone feel lucky to be around him. Meet him...
GHOST IS GRIPPING
NOT to be confused with a certain blood-spraying shock-rock band from Virginia, GRAW - aka Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter - is hands down the best tactical shooter on the 360...
THE 'TAL' ALL-STARS
"This American Life" has become a literary farm team for publishers. Here's a few of the writers who've used their radio days to launch or enhance their publishing careers.JOHN HODGMAN...
VIDEO LURED THE RADIO STAR
WHEN IRA GLASS took "This American Life" on tour around the country this winter, he was looking for audience feedback: Would they support his NPR show's conversion to a Showtime...
A NEW ICON
THE ROYAL NONESUCH Glasgow Phillips * * * Black Cat, $14 Why haven't more memoirs been written about those strange, heady years that made up the dot-com boom (and bust)?...
REQUIRED READING
EVERYTHING you ever wanted to know about birth, but were afraid to ask - plus a few things you never wanted to know - are explained with wit and experience...
MUST-HAVE BAG, WILL TRAVEL
Photography: Caitlin Thorne Stylist: Candice Langley Market associate: Christina Tam Fashion editor: Serena French
REBIRTH
YOU may have heard Joss Stone's name before, or even heard some of her neo-soul hits, such as "Spoiled" or "Right to Be Wrong." Whatever you've heard, Stone wants you...
3'S COMPANY
IF country music were baseball, listening to the album "Last of the Breed" would be the equivalent of watching Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle and Duke Snider play in the same...
SHE'S GRITTY IN PINK
THE movie they said was too out rageous to ever get a commer cial release in the United States is about to get one. "The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai"...
FLESH & BLOODY
TALK about traumatic upbringings. Hey, kid, what's your dad do? Oh, he scares the crap out of people. Such was life for Jonathan Craven, son of Wes Craven, Hollywood's Master...
FAMILIAR 'TOONS
THINK back, if you will, to a simpler time - a golden age when the country enjoyed peace and prosperity, Paula Abdul was a joke for her music alone, and...
TURTLE DUPE
LONG before Aqua Teen Hunger Force was charged with saving the world, another laboriously named group of pubescent cartoon freaks plied the unenviable trade: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And...
UNRELEASED MYSTERIES
Almost forgotten today, Michael Shayne is the missing link between playboy detectives like Nick Charles, who populated '30s drawing-room mysteries, and the working-class shamuses of the Philip Marlowe school, who...
THIS WEEK'S DVDS
Blood Diamond (Two-disc edition) (Warner, $34.98) This taught thriller earned Oscar acting nominations for its stars. Extras include film on the diamond industry. Rocky Balboa (Sony, 28.95) Sly Stallone is...
ARNOLD'S ANGST
AFTER shedding some serious pounds, Tom Arnold is now focused on losing something even bigger than his gut - his reputation as a cutup. Following an unexpectedly cogent performance in...
BRIDGE
TODAY'S spade game from the ACBL Fall Championships would be a duck-soup dummy-play problem at party bridge or IMPs. South takes the ace of diamonds, ruffs a diamond and leads...
ODDS ARE STACKED AGAINST HUMANS
IT'S time to declare a winner in the 20-year-plus war of Man vs. Machine. We lost. The most humiliating evidence was turned in earlier this month when Rybka, the computer...
DANCING QUEEN
HAKE it up baby. When ABC's "Dancing With The Stars" returns for its fourth season tomorrow night, all eyes will be on the one dancer who doesn't have two good...
MTV TAKES ON 'FRIDAY'
Personal foul, piling on, Coach Propst. One week after "Friday Night Lights" received its worst ratings ever, a star of the MTV reality football show "Two-A-Days" blasted the NBC rival....
SNACKER'S DELIGHT
IN Spain, dinner starts at 10 p.m. and is served on the go. Spaniards stop in at one tapas bar, have a sherry and patatas bravas; move on to the...
THE TAPAS CODE:A GLOSSARY
Embotidos: Spanish charcuterie. Selections usually include jamon (see below), chorizo (smoked pork sausage), sobrasada (salami), salchichon (cured pork sausage) and lomo (air-dried loin of pork). Jamon: Jamon is simply Spanish...
PAUL, 35, AND HSIAO, 35
JAN. 20 - Angela Hsiao met Ryan Paul at a casino-themed fund-raising party in August 2002, and though Ryan came out on top at the blackjack table, both of them...
MASTRANTONAKIS, 29, AND YOSHIDA, 24
FEB. 22 - An accurate barometer of true love may be whether the couple can survive embarrassing moments. On her first date with Narumi Yoshida, "We walked from the Upper...
COHEN, 30, AND DAWSON, 29
FEB. 25 - Wearing a light ivory Pronovias strapless gown, Kate Dawson was the star of her own show as she walked down the aisle. As a professional actress and...
BESHAI, 26, AND STROMNES, 34
FEB. 10 - Kelli Ann Beshai and William Stromnes were pleasantly surprised when more than 60 guests were able to attend their destination wedding at Puerto Rico's Ponce Hilton Golf...
TEIXEIRA, 44, AND SILVA, 42
FEB. 27 - It was love at first sight for Cape Verde natives Luis Teixeira and Esther Silva. While visiting the archipelago's capital city of Praia, Teixeira, a Manhattan resident,...
A THUG'S BEST FRIEND
Will Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver turn a deaf ear to 85-year-old Solange Elizee, who was punched in the face by the same thug who attacked 101-year-old Rose Morat in Queens...
HALFWAY HILLARY
Sen. Hillary Clinton displayed an intriguing dollop of strategic common sense during an inter view with The New York Times last week - but followed up with some truly problematic...
EXTREME JUSTICE
IN any other war in American history, the news that a captured high-level enemy combatant had defiantly ad mitted his responsibility for heinous attacks against civilian targets would have whipped...
WHO WANTS A GUN FIGHT?
BY striking down the Dis trict of Columbia's ex traordinarily strict gun- control law, a federal appeals court may have revived gun control as a political issue. It has been...
WHY AG IS DRAWING HEAT: GONZALES' FIRE IN THE HOLE
The junior and senior senatorial contingent from New York is having a crisis of faith over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys in the Justice Department "Schumer's Flexible 'Faith'," Editorial,...
TOO MORMON TO BE PRESIDENT?
A MORMON IN THE WHITE HOUSE: 10 THINGS EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MITT ROMNEY BY HUGH HEWITT REGNERY, 311 PAGES, $27.95 SPEAKING in New Hampshire last weekend, Democratic presidential...
PATRIOTISM GAP
EDITOR'S NOTE: Are American kids learning to love their country? Myrna Blyth, author with Chriss Hinton of the new book "How to Raise an American" (Crown Forum, $22.95), answers with...
NICKEL & DIMED
J.P.Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has found his organic growth - profiting handsomely off of millions of down-on-their-luck Americans. Dimon has led a Chase stampede into government direct-payment cards, which...
VIACOM LOSING ITS POP
THE biggest risk Viacom faces in its $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube isn't financial or legal - it's cultural. The lawsuit makes MTV parent Viacom appear more like...
CASTING NETS
New Jersey Nets' CEO Brett Yormark is carrying on two romances at the same time. The basketball executive is hard at work planning the team's 2009 move to Brooklyn while...
OIL PROFITEERS WILL EARN OUR OUTRAGE
Dear John: There is probably no answer to this question, but here goes: Why do we consumers not bat an eye anymore when gasoline jumps 20 to 30 cents a...
HOLD ON TIGHT - THE JUNK-LOAN FALLOUT'S JUST BEGINNING
CONFUSED about what the subprime mortgage meltdown means for the economy and your money? Well first, let's call a spade a spade. These risky mortgages aren't really so complex or...
SILVER LINING
Prospective home buyers with decent credit ratings and investors not holding equity in companies that entered into mortgages with shaky borrowers should not be adversely affected by the ongoing meltdown...
UNIV. CRIME SOARS
New York City colleges have a dirty little secret they're not sharing with prospective students - while citywide crime has plunged in the past several years, assaults, burglaries, robberies and...
FORDHAM DRINKS IN TOP SPOT
Fordham University is the city's No. 1 party school. The Bronx-based Jesuit college racked up the most alcohol violations of any city college, according to statistics compiled by the U.S....
THIS WEEK'S WINNERS AND LOSERS
WINNERSPATRICIA DUNN Former Hewlett-Packard board chairwoman cleared of fraud charges in boardroom spy scandal.DAVID REMNICK New Yorker editor leads pack again, earning nine National Magazine Awards nominations.STEVE SCHWARZMAN With his...
MIKE KILLS 'SENSITIVE' 9/11 PROBE
Mayor Bloomberg killed a study on the city's response to the 9/11 attacks after his lawyers said they did not want a report that cited any missteps or dealt with...
CITY AT CENTER OF 'HEP C' EPIDEMIC
Hepatitis C has "exploded" into a statewide epidemic, with a doubling of reported cases in the last five years seen as only "the tip of the iceberg," officials told The...
YIPPEE-KI-OY!
Call him the kosher cowboy. A Brooklyn rabbi with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement pulled up stakes in Crown Heights last week and schlepped west to Bozeman, Mont. "I saw a growing...
BILL WOULD CURB BIG-RIG PARKERS
Big-rig drivers could face big fines under a new bill for illegally parking trucks on residential streets. Bronx Councilman James Vacca introduced legislation last week to jack up the fines...
'1ST' OFFENSE FOR GROOM-SHOOT COP
An undercover detective was indicted by a grand jury for manslaughter not because he fired the shot that killed groom Sean Bell but because he fired the first shot, The...
HAVIN' A BLAST
Not even an indictment can keep disgraced detective Michael Oliver from a party. The cop charged with shooting 31 of the 50 shots at unarmed groom-to-be Sean Bell spent the...
THE MONSTER IN OUR FAMILY
He was bad news from the beginning. From the moment David Garvin walked into Christine Mallett's house in Arizona with her daughter Donna, she knew she didn't want her daughter...
SLAIN PAIR BEST BUDS
Slain auxiliary cops Eugene Marshalik and Nicholas Pekearo were "inseparable" friends who scheduled their shifts together, read the same books and frequently hung out during their down time. "They clicked...
VOLUNTEER COPS LEFT EXPOSED
They asked for Mace. They didn't get it. They hoped to receive the NYPD's old bulletproof vests after the department switched to new body armor last year. They didn't -...
A FINAL FINEST SALUTE OT HERO
Just before the coffin lid closed down over the body of auxiliary cop Nicholas Pekearo yesterday, Iola Pekearo turned away to hang on to that last glimpse of her slain...
4-YR.-OLD DROWNS IN QNS. POOL
A Queens boy drowned yesterday after falling in the family swimming pool, cops said. Nick Li, 4, was found lying face down at the bottom of the peanut-shaped pool in...
KID-WELFARE BIG IN 'SON ABUSE' SHOCK
A city child-welfare supervisor allegedly has been brutalizing his own son, forcing him to kneel in a corner for five hours at a time to punish him for taking a...
HS GRID COACH: FIRING WAS BIAS
New York's first female varsity high-school football coach, who was sacked from her position in December, won a temporary restraining order last week preventing the city from hiring her replacement,...
EGAN RAPS PARADE BIG
Edward Cardinal Egan called St. Patrick's Day parade honcho John Dunleavy on the eve of yesterday's march - "anxious" because the FDNY had been demoted from the front rank of...
MARCH ON RUDY'S 'TURF'
Rudy Giuliani laid claim to New York over his possible presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday, saying the Empire State had been "my home turf" longer than it'd been hers....
CLINTONS $HAKING TREE FOR COOL MIL
Hillary and Bill Clinton will party tonight with about 1,000 of their closest friends as the former president hosts a million-dollar fund-raiser for his wife's White House bid. Among the...
IT'S MORE PLANE AND SUFFERING
Hundreds of travelers already facing long overseas journeys had their misery extended for hours more by this weekend's ice storm. They sat inside grounded aircraft at Kennedy Airport as pilots...
FEDS IN HUNT FOR RAP-PACK GANGSTA
Federal marshals searching for a notorious Bloods drug thug say their man has ties to hip-hoppers and was spotted at an event hosted by rap star Cam'ron last summer. They...
METS' MASSAGE MAN A 'MOLESTER'
A former Mets massage therapist was arrested last week for operating without a license and allegedly sexually assaulting a female patron at his swanky East Side spa, The Post has...
'JONBENET NUT' TWIST
A string of never- before-published e-mails by John Mark Karr, the slimy teacher who made a false confession in the JonBenet Ramsey murder, details his twisted obsession with young girls...
GIRL'S BLOODY BEATING
A Catholic-high-school student said she was brutally punched, kicked and teased for looking "Chinese" by a pack of kids as she rode a city bus home from school - and...
HARRY'S GAL CASTS HER LAST SPELL
Teen movie star Emma Watson is less than enchanted with the stigma of being known as Harry Potter's girlfriend - and has bowed out of the last two installments of...
TRAGIC DAD OF BX. FIRE IN MOURNFUL MALI RETURN
BAMAKO, Mali - After a grueling 11-day journey with the bodies of his family lost in a Bronx fire, Mamadou Soumare felt only one emotion as he walked off the...
NYPD BLOTTER
BROOKLYN Police are asking for the public's help in finding a Bay Ridge teen missing for more than a week, authorities said. Anna Flores, 14, left her Senator Street home...
BRAVEST OVERCOME STUPID 'PAT-TRICK'
SILENTLY, on 45th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues, the firefighters watched as the parade went by. There was the Fighting 69th, and then the cops. But what of position...
'STALL' ABOARD: MY 13-HOUR TRANSATLANTIC PLIGHT
Manhattan resident Katherine Boyle and her husband, Post Photo Editor David Boyle, were stuck for seven hours aboard a London-bound British Airways jet at Kennedy Airport Friday night. Here's their...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Sat.: 794; Lucky Sum: 20 / Midday Win-4 Sat.: 2259; Lucky Sum: 18 / Evening Nos. Sat.: 448; Lucky Sum: 16 / Evening Win-4 Sat.: 6057;...
BASEBALL HAS LOTTO NERVE
PREPARE To Meet Thy (Book) Maker: Yes, indeedy, on the same day that Pete Rose revealed his latest version of the whole truth and nothing bet, er but - this...
HOYAS SMELL SWEET
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - The Big East is a shell of its former self, without doubt. But even after you are done mocking it and dissing it and kicking it while...
MAGIC MAN
SINCE Kobe Bryant was an adolescent, he has been consumed with visions of majesty. His definitive dream is to arrive a bit late at a packed auditorium or a theater,...
PUBLIC ENEMY
BUFFALO - She wasn't in the mood for a lesson or for a lecture, not with the tears running down her face, not with the grief racking her body. She...
DEFIANT MEEHAN DENIES CHARGES
TED Saskin is on his way out, that's a matter of if and not when, but he's not the big gest or most well-known hockey name to have become enmeshed...
GO WITH CAVALIER ATTITUDE
EACH day during the NCAA tournament, hoops maven Tim Sullivan, the Post's two-time defending Saturday's Heroes champion, will offer his plays of the day: Virginia (+21/2) over Tennessee: Love the...
SPITZER, DEC CHOICE MAKE SENSE - SO FAR, AT LEAST
IT LOOKS as if Gov. Spitzer is a big booster of hunting and fishing. This past week, Spitzer said he would try to reduce liabilities for landowners as a way...
WE'LL BC-IN' YA!
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - The Georgetown Hoyas thought they'd never get this chance, thought the opportunity to get some payback on Boston College was over when the Eagles turned into ducks...
CINDER' BLOCK
BUFFALO - They weren't the most fortunate team of prominence yesterday, because it was going to be hard to top the great escape Ohio State had performed hours earlier. But...
NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE
CHICAGO - When Kansas and Kentucky hit the court this afternoon at the United Center, it won't merely be a battle of two of the nation's most storied college basketball...
THE MADMEN COMETH
March Madness returns to the Meadowlands on Friday, meaning you can expect great plays, top players and breathtaking finishes. The tournament has a rich history in the New York metropolitan...
BULLDOGS GIVE TERPS BUT-KICKING
BUFFALO - It was a curious choice, to say the least. At halftime of this tight, taut second-round game between Butler and Maryland, just after their Terrapins had drained a...
GREAT X-SCAPE
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Greg Oden fouled out with 9.3 seconds remaining in regulation time yesterday. But he didn't foul up enough - at least in the eyes of the officials...
TYLER & CO. TOO MUCH FOR MICH. ST.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Mask or no mask, man-to-man or double-teamed, fronted or played from behind, Michigan State couldn't stop Psycho T. And if Michigan State, one of the most physical...
WITH LAW ON ITS SIDE, A&M OUSTS CARDS
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Louisville was playing in its home away from home again last night, but that didn't matter to Texas A&M. The Aggies, carrying the burden of the highest...
STERLING SHINING BRIGHT
Ruth Lovelace already has been approached by movie producers and book agents who hope to tell her story of becoming the first female coach to take a boys team to...
RICE-CTK FOR A TRIP UPSTATE
Rice will have a chance to get to the state Federation tournament after the Raiders held off Holy Cross, 67-63, in the CHSAA state semifinals last night at Holy Trinity....
VAC'S WHACKS
Every now and again, it's good to get a reminder of just what we've been missing while the Knicks have been lying in repose. If you watched that Suns-Mavericks double-OT...
MARTIN TO SHARE KEYS
Mark Martin had his first Daytona 500 title in his sights, before Kevin Harvick ripped the lead away in the final lap and held Martin off by .02 of a...
THE RUMBLE
Pacers be warned Johnny Sack's coming to see you Ever since Vince Curatola, aka Johnny Sack of "The Sopranos," judged the NETSational Seniors dance tryouts in November, he's become a...
ENOUGH ABOUT A-ROD
* If Alex Rodriguez wants to leave the Yankees, fine. If he wants to stay, then by God he should step in the postseason and not whine like a girl....
SPORTS SHORTS
NIT: Mississippi State advances Jamont Gordon had 20 points to lead Mississippi State to an 101-72 victory over Bradley yesterday in the second round of the NIT at Humphrey Coliseum...
STORM SNOWS OUT BIG A
Because of the winter storm that hit New York on Friday night into the morning, yesterday's St. Patrick's Day card at Aqueduct was canceled, and the Big A won't race...
DEVILS HOME A-BLOWN
The Continental Curse counts now, since it's something the Devils must overcome - whether it's a Newark-bound karma matter or simply their own fault. If they keep losing like this...
NEW LEADER OF THE PACK
Two days after tearing into Steve Francis in a video session, Knicks coach/president Isiah Thomas said he needs to see some leadership from the veteran guard. "He's a part of...
SERBY'S SUNDAY Q&A WITH...JAMES DOLAN
The Post's Steve Serby sat down with the chairman of Madison Square Garden and president and CEO of Cablevision Systems Corp. for an extended interview about the life of a...
CHAN HO PARKING LOT
PORTST. LUCIE - Chan Ho Park couldn't keep it in the park yesterday. And now the Mets might not keep him in their regular-season rotation. Park produced a deplorable start...
COOPERSTOWN 500
FOUR players have a strong chance of reaching 500 homers this season, and that severely endangers Carlos Delgado's shot at immortality. Delgado's Hall of Fame candidacy ultimately will be based...
DAMON: METS WERE WISE TO SIGN SCHOENEWEIS
Johnny Damon was pleased when Scott Schoeneweis signed with the Mets. He didn't mind sharing New York with the southpaw as long as he did not have to share a...
BURGOS STILL LACKS LOCATION
PORTST. LUCIE - Ambiorix Burgos certainly doesn't lack confidence - or velocity. But location? That's another matter. Burgos, who can throw 103 mph, was hit around in Friday's 5-4 loss...
JEFFERSON GUARANTEES NETS WIN STREAK
With 16 games left on the Nets' schedule, exactly one month left in the regular-season to earn their way into the postseason, coach Lawrence Frank admits time is running out....
7TH HEAVEN!
The Rangers had scored six goals in their previous four games and seven in the 11 before last night's Garden match against the Bruins. This is why Jaromir Jagr was...
PAV'ING THE WAY
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Now that Carl Pavano no longer answers to American Idle, it's time he sharpens his arsenal so he can help the Yankees win games. The first step...
ANDY WOULD BE FINE EVEN IF HE ENDS UP NO. 5
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Chien-Ming Wang is the way to bet when it comes to being Joe Torre's Opening Day starter against the Devil Rays. Andy Pettitte and Mike Mussina will...
ABREU RETURN MAY BE THURSDAY
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Joe Torre hopes to have right fielder Bobby Abreu back in the lineup Thursday but isn't saying that's a definite. "I don't know, everything is good but...
ALL THE GM'S MEN
PORT ST. LUCIE - Omar Minaya loves to conference call with his three top advisers, John Ricco, Tony Bernazard and Sandy Johnson. Call it four-sight when they all get together...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Some Germans are putting a brake on the national stereotype of driving in the ultra-fast lane. Nearly two in three believe a speed limit should be introduced on the car-loving...
DO DATES MATTER MORE THAN FRIENDS?
She let her friendships fall to the wayside every time a guy came along. Now, years later, she regrets pulling her disappearing act. Here's why. There is an old Dion...
DEAR POST MAN
Dear Post Man: I'm not sure what to do. I've been dating a man now for almost two years. I am 28 and he is 49. He has been married...
GIN AND PLATONIC
IF you weed out the dull, self-absorbed maniacs with mommy or daddy issues from the dating pool, chances are you'll find a great catch, right? Maybe not. As Jen, a...
MEET MARKET
'PEOPLE find me intelligent and somewhat quirky," says Pete, 32. And those are the exact traits he's looking for in a woman. One good way to hook him: "Laugh at...